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100th Blog Post

Top 6 Blog Posts On The Internet Squeeze

July 13, 2011

This is a special day for the Internet Squeeze, as it is the 100th blog post that I’ve written as I continue to write the book for brick and mortar businesses who want to move to a new business model. Many companies are feeling the internet squeeze, and they know they need to make the […]

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Four LinkedIn Imperatives

July 12, 2011

Have you discovered that all the noise about LinkedIn is just not amounting to anything measurable for you? Do you wish you had a powerful strategy that would allow you to reap the enormous growth and profit that the social media masters are yielding each day? Well, here are the four LinkedIn imperatives discovered from […]

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Will The 100,000,000 LinkedIn Users Buy Your Product Or Services?

July 11, 2011

Most people might not know that LinkedIn has more than doubled in size (OVER 100 Million Members) in the past year with one user added every single second! And did you know that the average user of LinkedIn has no clue about gaining top exposure in their business niche? Would you be surprised to find […]

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Product Review Of LinkedInfluence – Maximizing Your LinkedIn Benefits

July 8, 2011

If you are like many brick and mortar business owners and managers, you most likely are wondering how to get better results from your social media activities. There are many different products that claim to help you grow your social media accounts, so I have targeted one that I have purchased and use, and this […]

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Viral Marketing Comes From A Smart Social Media Plan

June 23, 2011

If you own a brick and mortar business that still relies on traditional methods for gaining new and repeat business, who should really consider implementing a social media plan for your company. We all see stories on the internet (and in our email inbox) that have “gone viral” due to the connectivity that social media […]

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Gray Hat SEO Ideas

Be Careful With Gray Hat SEO Techniques

May 27, 2011

As part of your effort to transition your brick and mortar business to one that utilizes a progressive internet marketing campaign, you will (and have) encountered a lot of ideas and potential solutions for search engine optimization (SEO). We have written about the ways you should do this (White Hat SEO) and ways you should […]

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Hire A Social Media Expert

3 Tips For Hiring A Social Media Expert

May 23, 2011

I was reading though some of my favorite blogs where I get a host of ideas for the Internet Squeeze and I came across a great read from Peter Shankman. He was ranting about the blindness of most business managers who still feel compelled to outsource social media. Whether it is a fear of getting […]

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Campaign Planning: The Strategy That Creates A Sales Vortex

April 19, 2011

There are so many ways to drive internet traffic to your sales vortex that it is imperative that you prepare detailed campaign plans for the most important drivers to your sales vortex. A campaign plan is simply an organized vision converted into a sequence of actionable processes that must be performed in order to generate […]

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Social Media Provides A Pathway To Your Sales Vortex

April 18, 2011

If content marketing is the gravity at the center of your sales vortex, then social media represents the critical pathways to the center of your sales and marketing message. In our attempt to create a giant sales vortex on the internet for traditional brick and mortar businesses, every component must be in place to reap […]

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Implementing A Sales Vortex

Implementation Plan: Starting Your Sales Vortex

April 14, 2011

The transition from a traditional brick and mortar business model to one that features a strategic internet marketing plan is no small tasking, and business owners and leaders who are charged with this undertaking must be prepared for major change in operational imperatives. Creating a sales vortex does not occur overnight, but when this awesome […]

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The Sales Vortex: Grow Like A Wild Fire Out Of Control

April 12, 2011

The sales vortex is a concept that brings all of your internet marketing together into a master strategy. This is the “eye in the sky view” of your entire internet marketing plan. It is how you incorporate everything that the Internet Squeeze exposes into a targeted marketing plan. Now that we understand that there will […]

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Word Of Mouth Advertising Is Back!

March 21, 2011

I do not proclaim to be a student of the history of advertising, but I think it is an important discussion point in our journey to understand why we have seen companies struggle with adjusting to the new marketing paradigm. Advertising most likely got its start when the first caveman had something of value that […]

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Delivering Social Media For Business

March 16, 2011

Delivering social media solutions for your business requires a commitment on the part of leadership, but the rewards for creating a social marketing process can far outweigh the discomfort of charging ahead into unchartered waters. As the fifth of a series of six articles on social media,  today’s post again explores social media by use […]

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Businesses Need Social Media

March 14, 2011

If you are questioning whether or not your business needs social media, then you have come to the right place! This post is the third in the series of articles written to explain, through a shopping mall analogy, a few of the social media sites that can help businesses increase the amount of sales that […]

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Social Media For Business Applications

March 12, 2011

Social media for businesses is the newest wave sweeping through corporate America and companies are trying to figure out how to implement (or if to implement) a social media plan. As we discussed in yesterday’s post “Social Media – The Shopping Mall Analogy,” a lot can be learned by examining a shopping mall analogy when […]

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Social Media – The Shopping Mall Analogy

March 11, 2011

If you are having a hard time understanding how social media is going to interact with your company of the future (or present!), then I have a great analogy that will create a framework from which you can build a social media plan in support of your company marketing plan. I call it the analogy […]

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Three Keys To Using Twitter For Business Marketing

March 10, 2011

Many companies have learned that using Twitter for business applications holds a lot of promise. Tech support operations have implemented a twitter solution to keep customers abreast of current status of everything that is going on. For example, my web hosting company uses Twitter to alert customers of the status of a server when it […]

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